Wednesday, December 09, 2009

JCL 2.1.1 released

JCL 2.1.1 is released with xml/web context support
Please visit project homepage for more details.

[License: LGPL]

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Kamran,

thanks for this library! I have a comment though:
The method JclObjectFactory.create(JarClassLoader jcl, String className, Object... args) doesn't take into account the case where the constructor's parameters of the object to create are superclasses or interfaces of 'args' (if I try I get an exception as JCL cannot match the constructor's signature with the classes of the arguments).
I've created a quick patch to allow this.
A new method that adds the constructor's signature needs to be defined and the array 'types' needs to refer to this signature:
public Object create(JarClassLoader jcl, String className, Class[] constructorSignature, Object... args) {
[...]
Class[] types = new Class[constructorSignature.length];

for( int i = 0; i < constructorSignature.length; i++ )
types[i] = constructorSignature[i];
[...]

(perhaps optimization is possible here but I didn't want to fiddle with the code!)

Regards,
Franck
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Franck Valentin
EMBL - The EBI
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD

Kamran Zafar said...

Thanks for this Franck.. I will update the JclObjectFactory with this in the next release..

Unknown said...

Hi Kamran,
Thanks for the library!
One question about it: when exception is thrown within our dynamically-loaded code - we cannot catch it within the code later because the exception itself gets wrapped into one of the JCL wrappers. Is it possible to turn the exception wrapping off?
Thanks again!

Roman